Characterising the electrothermal properties of microstrip-coupled TES detectors

Louisa Dunlop; Dorota M. Glowacka; David J. Goldie; Stafford Withington; Ghassan Yassin

doi:10.1117/12.671052

6 July 2006 Characterising the electrothermal properties of microstrip-coupled TES detectors

Louisa Dunlop, Dorota M. Glowacka, David J. Goldie, Stafford Withington, Ghassan Yassin

Proceedings Volume 6275, Millimeter and Submillimeter Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy III; 627507 (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.671052
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2006, Orlando, Florida , United States

Abstract

Microstrip-coupled Transition Edge Sensors (TESs) are important because they can be combined with waveguide-horn technology to produce sensitive bolometric detectors with well-defined, single-mode beam patterns and polarisation characteristics. They also allow superconducting RF filters to be included on the detector chips. Our own design of TES uses a finline taper to transform between waveguide and superconducting Nb microstrip. The microstrip transports the signal to a matched Au-Cu resistor, which is deposited on a thermally isolated SiN membrane. The dissipated RF power causes the resistance of a Mo-Cu TES bilayer to increase, and the resulting reduction in bias current is read out by a SQUID. We have fabricated TES bilayers with critical temperatures of 400 to 600mK, and deduced dark NEPs as low as 3x10^-17W/√Hz at 150GHz. In this paper we describe a number of experiments that were carried out in order to investigate the electrothermal behaviour of microstrip-coupled TESs. We show that the electrothermal behaviour of microstrip-coupled TESs can be as good as that of free-space TESs, and therefore that they are suitable for high-performance astronomical applications.

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Louisa Dunlop, Dorota M. Glowacka, David J. Goldie, Stafford Withington, and Ghassan Yassin "Characterising the electrothermal properties of microstrip-coupled TES detectors", Proc. SPIE 6275, Millimeter and Submillimeter Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy III, 627507 (6 July 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.671052

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